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Wyche reported some very hard conversations took place at this time, in which Sean and Jared did not see eye to eye.
If Goff had a 4 hour contentious meeting with his coach where it ends up getting reported that marriage counseling is required, and came out of it like nothing was wrong, how does that translate into grasping the nuances of McVay's offense?
And then years of McVay tweaking the offense to compensate, and STILL mistakes are made? To me, this is the most likely course of events to cause his frustration and desire to move on.
On thing that has had me curious since before the trade is something Silver said in a video about this situation, namely that there were "philosophical disagreements" between Goff and McVay with regard to the offense. I don't know what those entail, because no other information was given. But it does suggest the problem might have run deeper than mere performance, with Goff not buying into what McVay was doing with the offense, which would obviously be a big problem for both sides and would definitely be grounds for the breakup. I can only go by conjecture here, but maybe Goff didn't believe McVay's tweaks to the offense were the right ones for him. He certainly didn't look comfortable running the offense for a big chunk of the season. McVay obviously felt otherwise. Either way, I hope someday we find out what was said in that conversation.
If it's one thing McVay has shown, he will not sit idly by while a player doesn't perform up to his expectations.
I wish he would have applied that to Blythe. Good God, I hope his expectations for Blythe were above what he actually delivered.
At this point (and based on my previous paragraph above) I'm not sure having the C position fixed and having a more solid OL would have prevented the break up ... but it sure would have offered some clarity in evaluating both the offensive scheme and play of the QB who ran it.
The Rams don't want to build a reputation of bad breakups, this sort of looks like two now.
No, they don't want to build that reputation.
When they are finally able to talk about the trade per league rules, it probably wouldn't hurt McVay and Snead to come out and say that, yes, they could have handled the public relations aspect of this break up better than they did. It would at least acknowledge that they had a little respect for the player and appreciate what he did accomplish during his time here.